a series of attacks in baghdad leave dozens dead and around a hundred injured as a country. since the u.s. led invasion. was a virgin taking cash from people's bank accounts to secure a bailout and what's being called the great e.u. bank robbery. they're going to animal prisoners hunger strike is said to be growing with add to this increasingly outraged by the all the international humanitarian organizations. international news and their losses and other reports and this is our. it's good to have your company with us. at least of thirty six people have been killed in

a series of attacks across baghdad the deadly assault the come as iraq marks ten year as a since the coalition led by the u.s. and britain invaded the country with the a freedom and democracy mission joining me live now is a baghdad based correspondent hussein out of fun to see. what can you tell us about the latest attacks that just occurred. ok actually today early in the morning in baghdad wake up on a dozens of kamu bomb charge you dig. dug vic capital city of iraq and archly we started seeing the small action baghdad when the car bomb charred the neighboring city in baghdad and more than a dozens of car bomb targeting the city of baghdad and doors are people killed

were there is a hundreds of people wanted in all over baghdad become a bit of iraq. well thank you very much for that i just want to just to get an idea of what's been the see do these happen quite regularly and how do people there take what's happening in terms of all these what's the mood like it is a ten years of the rock u.s. led invasion the what's the mood like the. actually. if the current situation here in baghdad it is all the people here know invalid this is the very tan adversity of the u.s. led invasion to go to iraq and all the this situation her is a critical because as we heard before a while that the green zone in iraq he was a character ages blocked. all the roads the bridge from there to reversal by the back door of the cab or to being a block because this is the street. there is so critical and because of dozens of

people are being killed in the targeting by the car bomb targeting all the iraqi people and as well as the people are feeling shorey for what's going on because the detention collating violence is a rapid and because of all various bombing bombing course targeting all over baghdad moreover baghdad command center said that the capture. six cerberus carrying explosive devices as well as thirty three rockets small rock is trying to are targeting baghdad more cities who say to see who is a correspondent based in baghdad who is giving us and painting us that picture of what's actually happening today there with the that ten year anniversary since the invasion of iraq by u.s. now the u.s.

led invasion of iraq there is once again this day celebrate ten years ago who was supposed to decide all of the nation of what pills of mass destruction and freed from entirely but w.-m. days when level found and after tens of thousands of lives were lost the consequences are still emerging as you see cavanagh reports. at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. this was the freedom they brought shock and awe bombs over baghdad what the pentagon billed as a quick war to liberate iraq turned into a prolonged nightmare. ten years of bloodshed war occupation and deadly sectarian strife drained by afghanistan exhausted by iraq for washington the battle is over for a decade of war that's cost us thousands of lives and over

a trillion dollars. nation and we need to build it is our way but what if the nation they left behind. know we're not. biggest regret the iraqi people are destroyed and the infrastructure is devastated the country is ruined. these graves are a visual reminder of a decade of human strife almost everyone in this country has lost somebody whom they love no one knows exactly how many iraqis have been killed since the invasion and estimates range from more than one hundred fifty thousand to over one million for years the u.s. claims not to keep body count but how do you mohamed has kept count his four sons and only grandchild who were killed in a suicide blast. how am i doing i raise my sons and some of them get mahdi's and send them to universities i watch them die you ask me if it's better or worse now

compared to ten years ago i still have my sons ten years ago so i think the answer is over and it's. others have seen their dreams of a brighter future shattered by years of violence. i was top of my class but when circumstances became very bad after the occupation i feel that something was broken inside of me. my ambition and everything i used to dream of becoming a doctor or an engineer but conditions prevented me from continuing my studies but an education is no guarantee of work less than forty percent of iraqi adults have a job and a quarter of families live below the world bank's poverty line statistics that haven't improved much since the days of crushing u.n. sanctions in the one nine hundred ninety s. elections may have brought democracy to iraq but critics say the government is rife with corruption and infighting. despite the various that's occurred in the time of the former regime it is not comparable to the number of freely is by the

politicians and the current government. and more troubling perhaps are the lingering divisions. this occupation separated us which is right is a better place a political structure with a tribal one which aggravated with political conflicts i see no good and that's kind of an image of. today iraq is facing a new political crisis there's tension on the ground between the sunni provinces and the shia led government as well as between baghdad and the kurdish north i think if these issues are not resolve it can lead to more significant problems including conflict which can lead to i think the breakup of iraq and destabilization. and an upsurge in violence is sparking fears of a return to sectarian strife new figures show that death rates have actually risen since the last american soldier left a rocky soil. how long will iraq remain like this every day there are explosions

every day there is killing every day there is terrorism. explosion after explosion iraqis have asked themselves that same question for most of the last ten years lucie county r.t. iraq. u.s. taxpayers probably the how much mole they'll have to spend on iraq on top of what's already been poured in the figure of over eight billion a us dollars continues it to rise with a cause amounting every second from dealing with the returning personnel to the broad us social and economic impact of the war and he said no it takes a closer look now at the numbers. the decade long war in iraq may be officially over but american taxpayers are still paying for the cost of the invasion let's talk numbers the u.s. has spent more than sixty billion dollars in reconstruction in iraq so far that works out to about fifteen million dollars per day overall cost and other aid adds

up to seven hundred and sixty seven billion dollars since the american led invasion and that's according to the congressional budget office but national priorities project a u.s. research group they estimate the real cost at over eight hundred billion dollars and they add that some funds are still being spent on ongoing projects and that number continues to rise every second now a major problem it seems is that all this cash the u.s. is coughing up isn't falling into the right hands or projects iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki says funding could have brought a great change in iraq but there was misspending of money i want to give you some examples of this mis spending if you can call it that there are too many to name but here are some that i think really stand out in iraq's diyala province the u.s. began building a prison in two thousand and four but abandon the project after three years to flee a surge in violence now have complete facility cost american taxpayers forty million dollars but since in rubble and there are no plans to ever finish or use it

according to the justice ministry also sub contractors overcharge the u.s. government thousands of dollars for supplies take a look at this control switch the u.s. pays nine hundred dollars for that when it's actually valued at just seven dollars eighty dollars for a section of a pipe that is actually valued at just a buck fifty and when you're talking hundreds of billions of dollars nine hundred bucks of course sounds like small change but obviously it's adding here's another one why spread fraud led by a former u.s. army officer cost tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks. nectar to government contracts for bottled water twenty two people were criminally convicted would still tens of millions of dollars in contracts for bottled water well for iraqis they're paying a different cost a government rife with corruption and in finding near daily deadly bombings still blast baghdad streets and a quarter of the country's thirty one million lives in poverty.

a criminal inquiry into the death of a russian lawyer said again muchness ski has been dropped russia's investigative committee has announced it found no evidence of crime led to let me see dying in custody in two thousand and nine let's get more from artie's irina let me know what exactly are the investigators say. well at this point they have said that they have found there have been no trespassing in in terms of the confinement or criminal confinement or criminal investigation against us again magnitsky that he was essentially jailed. he was not beaten while in confinement and therefore they've also established that he has actually died from natural causes that is from heart failure and several other complications all of which from

several really severe diseases that he was suffering from and thus they have essentially ruled out any foul play which was the main point of contention between you can say the russian authorities and the family friends and several settler rides groups all of whom were saying that he was in fact beaten while he was in jail and that that was the main reason why he died in november of two thousand and nine in fact they have managed to raise enough controversy surrounding the case even for some of the foreign officials to interfere or to rather voice their opinion on the matter for example the u.s. congress has come out with this so-called magnitsky act which is essentially a less a list of russian officials all of whom according to the united states have been somehow involved in the case of civilians and therefore they're now banned from entering the united states as well as all of their u.s. assets have been frozen so this is sort of a russian case which has managed to breach the the ocean wide gap and has caused

quite a lot of controversy both in russia and abroad controversy indeed do you know it is that any of the ongoing legal proceedings are connected with make taking place. absolutely in fact as well as you can say his boss the head of the home dish capital gloop group william browder actually currently under investigation criminal investigation in connection with fraud and tax evasion in fact that was the first reason wife of the magnitsky actually ended up in jail back in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine and therefore that criminal investigation is still continuing and we're we are in for another court session which is scheduled for the second half of march of this year you're not going to live. with us the thank you for that update. cyprus's revisit a revising its bank plans or by easing the burden for those with small deposits but

holders of more than a hundred thousand euros would lose almost ten percent of their cash the country's parliament is expected to vote on the package later today the president had moved to dip into people's pockets is to secure a vital cash injection from the e.u. and the i.m.f. plans are triggered a run on the banks and protests in the country more from lucy robson a journalism living in cyprus. there are several parties which are against this this option that is being proposed by the government it isn't guaranteed at all but the government has said that it is willing to revise the terms of any levies initially they were going to be quite harsh on small depositors but there have been terms proposed about anybody with less than twenty thousand euros in the bank being tax free with any any outcome from this decision if the government is toying with the idea of finding the five point eight billion required euros from other sources

. government bonds could be involved also possibly bank pension funds the e.u. has said that cyprus is free to some extent to find the five point eight billion euros where it chooses there has been a lot of anger and have been people saying that they want to remove their cash from cyprus as soon as they can but really a feeling of expectancy here. the potential bailout rage on deposits in cyprus is keeping investors nervous both inside and outside the euro zone earlier explain to my colleague bill dodd why russia is particularly amusing about brussels plan you know there's a certain stereotype in the west about the russian mafia keeping their money in cyprus offshore accounts well of course to some extent there is some illegal money there but differently fundamentally it's all about the big businesses because all my. just about every big business in russia has an asset an offshore account in cyprus and the biggest concern which is now there and we stopped about by the by

the president by the highest officials in the country does not concern the big businesses in the sense that russia has been striving to have the offshore money returns to the country the government believes it's now you countries are more stable you need to provide healthy environment to keep the money inside the country so this is not the concern here especially with the government and the president saying that it wants the money to be returned to russia earlier we spoke to the spokesperson of the russian president and hear what he had to say about it because of mr president for sure is a share of russian economy. was made during his address annual address the russian parliament this year and here still stuck to this idea that we really have to make environment and russian economy more comfortable for those that got

to invest their money. and to keep the money here on russian soil the biggest concern in the biggest and fairness which president putin talked about here concern small businesses private interpreters who have the money in cyprus and we're talking here at least around forty thousand people who have their money in the offshore accounts they will suffer and this. seriously condemned by moscow but then of course cyprus is in a very difficult position either it risks losing the bailout funds which of course will keep the country buoyant if it goes ahead with that then of course it loses its foreign investment investment so what does it do the reason feeling that cyprus may be shooting itself in the leg in a sense that it's been living off the offshore money for many years now and russians have already started withdrawing their money from the cyprus accounts they may be soon followed by the japanese the chinese also have loads of money in the cyprus accounts and you know the world is a big place they're always find another country to have their money there. you know

with our tease stay with us for more news off the show breaking clue during israel's political deadlock is seeming to ease up as a new coalition finally gets to work but as we report later this hour there are more battles for prime minister netanyahu to find. wealthy british study. time right on. the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is all. i'm trying hard because the big picture. this is all of the prisoners hunger strike at guantanamo bay is growing something even the u.s. military officials now admit but they still deny that inmates are being mistreated although that some lives are in danger as the lawyers claim what's more the lack of response from humanitarian organizations is raising eyebrows as marrying up with my

experience. as the guantanamo hunger strike enters its forty second day there's been very little response and no outcry from international organizations the united nations for example has yet to comment or a good knowledge of the get mo hunger strike now r t did reach out to un human rights bodies in geneva and officials have promised to respond to our inquiry with a comment by tuesday afternoon now on the other hand the international committee of the red cross which last visited the island prison the third week of february doesn't knowledge that a hunger strike is taking place but so far all the organization has done is release a statement saying that the i.c.r.c. believes past and current tensions at guantanamo to be the direct result of the uncertainty faced by detainees now compounding this problem is that it's been very difficult to access any information about get most prisoners due to military

censorship after all it was the attorneys for the detainees that first expressed urgent and grave concern over the life threatening mass hunger strike that reportedly started at guantanamo on february sixth now according to the center for constitutional rights a reported one hundred thirty prisoners on hunger strike in early february to protest the alleged confiscation of personal items such as photos and mail and the alleged sacrilegious handling of their qur'an now lawyers have reported that some of the prisoners are coughing up blood have lost more than twenty pounds and have been hospitalized experts medical experts say that by day forty five hunger strike participants can experience potential blindness and partial hearing loss now the center for constitutional rights and the hague b.s. council have sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel urging him. to help immediately and this mass hunger

strike and to quote take action before another man dies at that prison unquote the director of public affairs for joint task force kuantan a mo captain robert duran did release a statement on friday to r.t. denying claims of a mass hunger strike or the mishandling of the koran shortly after mr durant released his statement navy commander announced that flights to to the island prison from south florida will be terminated on april fifth now those flights have served as a vital air bridge for attorneys who are seeking to meet with their imprisoned clients critics believe that this is an attempt by the defense department to limit the access that attorneys with their clients reporting from new york. r.t.

. turn to some other international news in greece now the syrian government is accusing rebel fighters of using chemical weapons in an attack in the country's laws which reportedly killed fifteen people meanwhile syria's main exiled opposition blog has elected its own prime minister to administer areas seized by the rebels the new leader is a syria born american citizen a desperate rebel groups fighting in syria have already criticize the election. hundreds of thousands of catholics gathered to pope francis as he gave his inaugural mass to add st peter's basilica in his address to the crowd the pontiff spoke of the church's responsibility to help the weak and poor and to protect the environment francis is the first pope from the americas and the first of from outside europe in more than a thousand years he was elected to lead the world's one point two billion catholics last week cd benedict the sixteenth who came to due to poor health. israel's new

government has now been formed and saw an end to two we took weeks of strain u.s. negotiations that sold to political newcomers assume roles as prime minister netanyahu was making coalition partners but the compromise i could mean is troubles are far from over his policy explains he might have perfected the role of israel's great communicator but as prime minister benjamin netanyahu enters his third term of office like his audience his powers of persuasion are shrinking. you need to watch the body language of how this coalition was forged it changed from aggressive to disappointed and after the disappointment the anger will come we'll see that in the open what's already being seen in the open is that much on yahoo's new partners are not the ones he wanted form a media personality ideal appeared and representative of these ready set of movement naftali bennett their everything he's not young contemporary and popular.

he's panicked netanyahu realizes they are the next generation it's like an international geographic film where the young lions push the old line aside they get the females and the future is theirs. but bibi as he's called is nothing if not supremely confident over the past dozen years he's earned a doctorate in defeat and how it may be avoided he's a pro at welding together the broken parts so they can hold on for a little bit longer. driven by the fact that he has some kind of paranoid when you're paranoid. makes you minimize the volume of mistakes that you might do and i think that when he always thinks that there's a product that someone is. both to put a trick on him he's there were prepared as he used to sit around

a table with partners who might eventually signal his downfall. netanyahu ran a confused campaign and a confused negotiation although he is very smart very experienced it didn't show the goals were constantly changing there was no planning needs to sit now and get his house in order. it wasn't that long ago that time magazine crowned him king bibi influential magazine ran with the headline that he's come could israel but nine months later it's not so clear whether israel has been finally conquered and netanyahu in the final act the great communicator might not be able to communicate so great after all. reality television. coming up with breaking the said.

there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to research the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but now america funding segregation elsewhere via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents. to start using special bus lines place to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus lines israeli human rights group but selim said the attempt to bus segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant

racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the us is top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just my opinion. it's technology innovations all the developments around russia. the future are covered. if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i got so many i mean . i know that i've seen the same thing really messed up. and we're all very sort

of personally apologize if that. worst you were going through the white house or the. radio guy in four minutes from a critic. i want you to watch what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. greetings everyone welcome to breaking the set my name is many rock below i'm filling in for abby martin while she's out of the studio this morning i was shocked and honestly disgusted to read about a couple of people who actually benefited financially from the sandy hook shooting in the days following the massacre that left twenty eight dead in two injured at a small connecticut elementary school two new york hedge funds were.